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1	The Empire of Tea: The Remarkable History of the Plant That Took Over the World more books like this by Alan MacFarlane, Iris MacFarlane add to wishlist The authors--mother and son--spent many years on a tea plantation in Assam. Together, they tell the history of tea, including their own experiences with growing it. Iris MacFarlane writes about her efforts to improve the lives of the plantation workers, who were routinely abused by their British overseers. The book also connects the rise of tea ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.58! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Glass: A World History more books like this by Alan MacFarlane, Gerry Martin, University of Chicago Press (Creator) add to wishlist Picture, if you can, a world without glass. There would be no microscopes or telescopes, no sciences of microbiology or astronomy. People with poor vision would grope in the shadows, and planes, cars, and even electricity probably wouldn't exist. Artists would draw without the benefits of three-dimensional perspective, and ships would still be ... see all copies from $10.99! new only from $12.95! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Letters to Lily: On How the World Works by Alan MacFarlane add to wishlist In a frank and unpretentious series of letters addressed to a teenage granddaughter, this highly original book teaches us to know and understand the world we live in and its rules, and how to behave in it. In these thirty letters, Alan Macfarlane answers his granddaughter's questions about how the world works, how it got to be as it is, what it ... see all copies from $3.98! new only from $8.97!
4	The Family Life of Ralph Josselin, a Seventeenth-Century Clergyman: An Essay in Historical Anthropology more books like this by Alan MacFarlane add to wishlist Ralph Josselin kept for almost forty years a remarkably detailed account of his life- his mental and emotional world as well as his activities. Few diaries from this period afford such a rounded picture of a family from so many aspects. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.43! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Reconstructing Historical Communities more books like this by Alan MacFarlane add to wishlist Alan MacFarlane has studied the parishes of Earls Colne in Essex and Kirkby Lonsdale in Cumbria, as well as other parishes, and has undertaken anthropological fieldwork in a contemporary community in Nepal. In collaboration with Sarah Harrison and Charles Jardine he has devised a method of collecting, breaking down and then reintegrating ... see all copies from $17.90! new only from $27.81! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Japan Through the Looking Glass more books like this by Alan MacFarlane add to wishlist This entertaining and endlessly surprising book takes us on an exploration into every aspect of Japanese society from the most public to the most intimate. A series of meticulous investigations gradually uncovers the multi-faceted nature of a country and people who are even more extraordinary than they seem. Our journey encompasses religion, ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $9.56! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Glass Bathyscaphe more books like this by Alan MacFarlane, Penny Tweedie add to wishlist A narrative history of glass from discovery, through antiquity, the Enlightenment, the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions to the present. It charts the history of the technology but also the enabling effects of glass on such aspects of civilization as experimental science, perspective, astronomy, zoology and all manner of scientific ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $61.75! \| first editions
8	English Historical Records more books like this by Alan MacFarlane add to wishlist This book describes the nature of English historical records over the period 1200-1800. It surveys the records created by the state, the estates of landlords, and the Church. The work arises from an intensive research project (1973-81), which involved the manual and computerised analysis of all the surviving records for two parishes, in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $25.65! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Green Gold by Alan; Macfarlane Macfarlane, Iris add to wishlist Apart from water, tea is more widely consumed than any other food or drink. Tens of billions of cups are drunk every day. How and why has tea conquered the world? Tea was the first global product. It altered life-styles, religions, etiquette and aesthetics. It raised nations and shattered empires. Economies were changed out of all recognition. ... see all copies from $3.32! new only from $23.63!
10	Epidemiological Studies: A Practical Guide more books like this by Alan J Silman add to wishlist This is a practical guide to the design, conduct, analysis and interpretation of epidemiological studies. The clear and concise text is supplemented throughout by appropriate illustrative examples and helpful practical hints, all designed to support and encourage newcomers to the field. The book assumes no prior knowledge. Sufficient material is ... see all copies from $43.84! new only from $43.84! \| first editions \| SVS
11	The Riddle of the Modern World: Of Liberty, Wealth and Equality more books like this by Alan MacFarlane add to wishlist What conditions the chances of liberty, wealth and equality at the start of the third Christian millennium? Why did human civilizations develop so slowly for thousands of years, and then transform themselves during the last 300? This study of four great thinkers who lived between 1689 and 1995, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, De Tocqueville, and Ernest ... see all copies from $43.50! new only from $54.01! \| signed copies \| SVS
12 view cover	The Savage Wars of Peace more books like this by Alan MacFarlane add to wishlist This book is concerned with the escape of an increasing number of people from the trap of war, famine and disease. Two hundred years ago, leading thinkers such as Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon and Thomas Malthus could not see how the inhabitants of the earth, then numbering less than a billion, could be adequately fed, clothed and housed. The world ... see all copies from $39.99! new only from $40.86! \| first editions \| SVS
13	Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England more books like this by Alan MacFarlane add to wishlist This is a regional and comparative study of early modern witchcraft. The history of witchcraft continues to attract attention with its emotive and contentious debates. The methodology and conclusions of this book have impacted not only on witchcraft studies but on the approach to social and cultural history with its quantitative and ... see all copies from $6.95! new only from $47.53! \| first editions
14	Origins of English Individualism more books like this by Alan MacFarlane add to wishlist `Will stimulate work and thought rather than impose a new orthodoxy. The combination of bold iconoclasm with judicious questioning gives the book an excitement unparalleled in recent English historiography. It is an extraordinarily invigorating blast of fresh air.' History. see all copies from $7.95! new only from $84.95! \| first editions
15 view cover	The Origins of English Individualism: The Family, Property and Social Transition more books like this by Alan MacFarlane add to wishlist The Origins of English Individualism is about the nature of English society during the five centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, and the crucial differences between England and other European nations. Drawing upon detailed studies of English parishes and a growing number of other intensive local studies, as well as diaries, legal ... see all copies from $21.59! new only from $38.18! \| first editions \| SVS
16	Witchcraft in Tudor & Stuart England: A Regional & Comparative Study more books like this by Alan MacFarlane add to wishlist see all copies from $9.00! new only from $28.00! \| first editions
17 view cover	Expedition Naga: Diaries from the Hills in Northeast India, 1921-1937 & 2002-2006 more books like this by Peter Van Ham, Jamie Saul, Alan MacFarlane (Foreword by) add to wishlist "Expedition Naga" is a multisensory trip into one of the world's most remote and least accessible regions. Diaries written by British administrators/explorers during punitive expeditions in the 1920's and -30's against the Naga, a people once notorious for their headhunting activities, are compared with contemporary notes written during the last 5 ... see all copies from $45.10! new only from $45.10! \| first editions
18 view cover	A Sentimental Economy: Commodity and Community in Rural Ireland more books like this by Carles Salazar, Alan MacFarlane (Preface by) add to wishlist An ethnographic study of the rural economy of the west of Ireland, concentrating on the social organization and cultural construction of work in a community of 65 family farms. Part I presents the anthropologist's, the native's, and the political economist's perspectives, and Part II describes econo see all copies from $58.92! new only from $58.92!
19	Witchcraft and Religion: The Politics of Popular Belief more books like this by Christina Larner, Alan MacFarlane (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $10.80! first editions
20	Marriage and Love in England: Modes of Reproduction 1300-1840 more books like this by Alan MacFarlane add to wishlist 'Marriage and Love in England' has been awarded the American Sociological Association, Family Section, William J. Goode Award for 1987. see all copies from $22.47! new only from $53.00!
21 view cover	The Making of the Modern World: Visions from the West and East more books like this by Alan MacFarlane add to wishlist At the start of the third Christian millennium we are aware of massive political, economic and ideological changes which condition the chances of liberty, wealth and equality. Yet it is surprisingly difficult for us to understand these forces, for we cannot see what surrounds us so closely. This book analyzes our condition by looking at the work ... see all copies from $73.50! new only from $103.41! \| SVS
22 view cover	Green Gold: the Empire of Tea by Alan Macfarlane add to wishlist Apart from water, tea is more widely consumed than any other food or drink. Tens of billions of cups are drunk every day. Yet two thousand years ago it was only chewed or drunk by a handful of monks in China and some tribal peoples in south east Asia. How and why has tea conquered the world? Tea was the first global product. It altered life-styles ... see all copies from $6.70! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
23	The Justice and the Mare's Ale: Law and Disorder in Seventeenth-Century England more books like this by Alan MacFarlane add to wishlist see all copies from $11.00! new only from $55.00! \| first editions
24	The Diary of Ralph Josselin, 1616-1683 more books like this by Ralph Josselin, Alan MacFarlane (Editor) add to wishlist This book is intended for scholars and students of 17th-century society and thought. see all copies from $65.04! new only from $67.92!
25	The Family Life of Ralph Josselin: A Seventeenth-Century Clergyman more books like this by Alan MacFarlane add to wishlist see all copies from $9.00! first editions

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